Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-01

INFINITE. Inc dldactlC Or. DICK salG ne
really thought that the redeemed in
heaven spent some of their time with the
higher branches of mathematics.
Some of our transferred and transported
metaphysicians - what s-e they doing
now. Studying the human mind, only
under better circumstau ces than they
used to study it. They used to study the
mind shcathed in the dull human body
Now the spirit unshesthed-noW they are
studying the sword outside the scabbard.
Have you any doubt about what Sir
William Hamilton is doing in heaven, or
what Jonathan Edwards is dong in
heaven, or the multitudes on earth who
had q passion for metaphysics sanctifed
by the grace of God? No difficulty in
guessing. Metaphysics, glorious meta
physics, everlasting metaphysics.
What ere our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now? Explor-
ing yet, but with lightning lOCOmOtiOD,
with vision microscopic and telescope st
the same time. A continent at g glance.
i world in q second. a planetary system
in day. Christi,n John Franklin no
more in disabled "Erebus' pushing
toward
THE NORTH POLE,
Christian belong no more trying TO free
blockaded "Jeannette" from the ice,
Christian Livingstone no more amid Afri-.
can malarias trying TO make revelations of
dark continent; but all Of them in the
twinkling OF al eye taking in that which
which was unaUproaCheble. Mont Blanc
scaled without alpenstOck. The coral
depths Of the ocean explored without 8
diving bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey Days
safety lamp.
What ere cur departed friends who
found their chief Joy in study doing Eow?
Studying yet, but instead of few thou
sand volumes on q few shelves, all the
volumes of the universe open before them
geologic, ornithologic, ConcholOgic,
botanic, astrOnomic, philosophic. No
more need OF Leyden-i ars, or voltalc piles,
or electric batteries, standing IS they do
face to tace with the facts of the universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the history
OF s few centuries of our planet only, but
the history Of the eternitIes-Wnole mil
lenniums before Nenophon, or HerOdotus,
or Moses, or Adam was born. History OF
one world, history of ell worlds.
What are cur departed astronomers DO
ing? Studying astronomy yet, bur not
through the dull lens of earthly observa-
tor, but with one stroke of wing going
right out 10 Jupiter and Mars and Mer-
curry and Saturn and Orion and the
Pleiades-overtsking and passing swift
est comet in their flight. Herschel died q
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doing? Isaac Newton
died q Christian. Have you any doubt
about what Isaac Newton is doing?
Joseph Henry died s Christian. Have
You any doubt about what Joseph Henry
| is doing? They were in discussion, al
these astronomers Of earth, about What
| the aurora 0Ore6lis was, anG lone OF them
could guess. They know now they have
! been out there
TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES.
What are our departed Christian chem.
lists doing? Following cut their own sci
ence, following out and following for
| ever. Since they died they have solved
| ten thousand questions which once puZ
lied the earthly laboratory. They stand
on the other side Of the thin wall of cleo
tricity, the wall that seems 10 divide the
physical from the spiritual World; the THU
wall OF electricity, so thin the vail that
ever ana anon il seems to be almOs
broken DISQUALIFICATION through tron
our side By telephone and telegr&phjc
apparatus, broken through from the othe,
SIDE by strange influences which men il
their ignorance call spirituaIistic manifes
tations. All that matter cleared
up. Agsssiz standing amid his studen
explorers, down in Brazil, coming scros.
some great novelty in the rocks, tskin!
of his hat and saying: "Gentlemen, lie
US pray; we must have divine illumi-
nation; we want wisdom from the Crea
tor TO study these rocks; He made them
let US pray''-Agassiz going right OF
with his studies forever and forever.
Bu1 what Gre the men Of the law, VIII
il this world found their chief 10y in III
legal Professionalism are they dom:
now? Studying law in q universe Wher
everything is controlled by law, frou
fight Of humming bird to flight of worl
law, not dry end hard and Grudging
but righteous and magnificent lGW, befOr
which man and Cherub and serGph ant
srchangel and God himself bow. Tn
chain of law long enough 10 win
around the immensitles and inhnity an
eternity
CHAIN OF LAW.
What place to study law, where 81
the links of the cham are in the hand.
What are cur departed Christian friends
who, IN this world, had their Joy in IL
healing art, doing now? Busy st thei
old business. No sickness in heaven, on
plenty OF sickness on earth, plenty @
WOUNDS il the different parts Of God
dominion TO be healed and to be medi
Gated. You cannot understand why tha
patient got well after al the skilifu
doctors Of New York and Brooklyn Ia
said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombi
touched him-Abercrombie, who, ate
, many years' doCtoring the bodies aud II
souls of people in Scotland, went up :
J God in 1874. Perhaps Abercr0mbi
touched him.
l should not wonder If my old frient
DR.. John Brown, who died in Edinburg
, John Brown, the author CT "Rab en-
: and His Friends"-John Brown, who Wa
as humble Christian as he was skillfG
physician and World-renowned autho
| i should not wonder if he mad bee
, back sgain and again to see SON
J Of his old patients. Those VIII
} had their Joy in healing til
sickness and the woes Of esrth, gone u
TO heaven, are CONE forth again for be
| nignsnt medicsmeut.
, But what are our friends who foun
their chief 10y in conversation and
sociality doing now? In brighter Cor
= versstion there and in graEder soci
! atty.
e What piece 10 visit in, where yor
t neXt-door neighbors are kings aud queen
y You yourselves kingly and qQeenly.
they want 10 know more particular